Liana Badr

Liana Badr (born 1950 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.^[1]

Life

She is a novelist, story writer, journalist, poet and cinema director. She was raised in Jericho. She studied at the University of Jordan. She graduated from the Beirut Arab University with a BA in philosophy and psychology.She studied at the Lebanese University. She earned her M.A from BierZeit university.^[2] She lived in Beirut and worked as an editor for Al Hurriyya.

After 1982, she moved to Damascus, then Tunis, and Amman. She returned to Palestine in 1994.^[3]

She worked in the P.M.C as a general director for the Arts. She worked in the Cinematic Archive through the Audiovisual department, Palestinian ministry of culture. She was editor of Dafater Thaqafiyya.^[4]

Works

• بوصلة من أجل عباد الشمس: رواية ؛ شرفة على الفاكهاني : قصص (Compass of the Sunflower) دار الثقافة الجديدة, 1989
• جحيم ذهبي: قصص (Hell of Gold: stories), دار الاداب،, 1991
• نجوم أريحا (Jericho Stars), دار الهلال،,1993
• زنابق الضوء (Lillies light) 1998 دار شرقيات للنشر واالتوزيع,

Works in English

• A compass for the sunflower, Women's Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7043-5037-3
• A Balcony over the Fakihani. Translator Peter Clark, Christopher Tingley. Interlink Books. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56656-464-9. 
• The Stars of Jericho, 1993 ^[5]
• The Eye of the Mirror, Translator Samira Kawar, Garner, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85964-020-3; Garnet, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85964-201-6

Anthologies

• Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. (2005). "Colors". Modern Arabic fiction: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13254-1. 
• Denys Johnson-Davies, ed. (2006). "from The Land of Stone and Thyme". The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-7976-6. 
• "March of the Dinosaurs". Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Random House Digital, Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-0-307-58883-8. 

Filmography

• Fadwa: A Tale of a Palestinian Poetess. 52 min, 1999.
• Zeitounat. 37 min, 2000.
• The Green Bird. 37 min, 2002.
• Siege ( A Writer's Diary). 33 min. 2003
• The Gates are Open. Sometimes! 2006. 42 min.
• A match on Thursday Afternoon. 2006. 3 min.
• Al QUds – My City . 2010. 52 min ^[6]

References

Sources

• Brinda J. Mehta (2007). "Palestinian Women and the Problematics of Survival". Rituals of memory: in contemporary Arab women's writing. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3135-4. 
• Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, Therese Saliba, ed. (2002). Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2951-1. 

External links

• "Interview with Liana Badr", Nisi Magazine, Moa Geistrand, 26 September 2010
• "Liana Badr Eye of the Mirror", Art and Politics Now, January 31, 2010
• "The Mothers of the Intifada in Liana Badr's Eye of the Mirror", The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 102, Number 4, Fall 2003, pp. 809–823